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We’re trying to do some research into the typical browsing speeds on our beloved iPhones so we’ve knocked up a simple web app for the iPhone that runs a speed test.  The results are logged by connection type (eg 2G, 3G etc).   We feel this information will be valuable to developers such as ourselves as iPhone connection speeds to web apps are something of an unknown quantity.
Please point your iPhone to: 

http://speedtest.lightsourcemedia.co.uk 

and run the test. 

Technically (and aesthetically) it’s a bit quick and dirty but it works. 

There are limitations in the accuracy as it contacts a server in the USA to do the test, so if you’re in the UK for example you may get a higher speed browsing to UK sites than you will on this test. But it’s a start and most servers (and iPhone users) are based in the USA, plus the limitation will mostly only factor into WiFi tests (which we’re not especially interested in actually) so it’s not a bad compromise.

Your help is greatly appreciated! 

Please encourage others to take the test, spread the link around, the more that do the better the stats will be.

We will post an analysis of the results on this blog and add a page to our site showing the average speeds achieved etc.

NOTE:  We would like to expand the test by placing our test file on servers in different countries.  Please contact us if you have a lot bandwidth to spare and can host the test file we’d sure appreciate it.

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